Announcements

• Join Us Online for Sunday Worship

  

  Starts every Sunday at 10 AM. You can join us live on YouTube @:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmsKXAxwoZ2KueTwfYJdfLg or Facebook @: https://www.facebook.com/NewHopeFredericksburg Request for prayer joys & concerns? Send us a message on our Facebook page or by text @ 703 303 9017. 

• COVID-19 Response

  Dear Friends,

  COVID-19 is causing far-reaching, long-term changes in our daily lives in empty store shelves, restricted activities, and unusual awareness of every sneeze, throat tickle, and morning cough.  How many will lose their jobs?  Homes? Pensions? How will we eat? We worry for our parents, grandparents, children.  Some families are living in tighter contact than usual and experiencing both the blessings and curses of close community.  

  The Bible acknowledges that life comes with blessings and curses. Full times and lean times.  And the Bible also shows us that bad news isn't the final word.  We are living in the imperfect, uncertain, dangerous, perplexing world God reveals in the Bible.

  As Christians, we have a relationship with a Savior who comforts the afflicted, rescues the perishing and welcomes the strangers.  We know him as a man who lived in a world of human misery, and he went out of his way to reach out across social distances of every kind. We know him as God-with-us. And Jesus invites us to be partners in God's saving grace by being with others. Jesus knows our strength better than we do. Listen for the voice of the Savior, saying, you are living through a time of trial. I see you. I am not causing this disease. It is part of an imperfect world. I am with you, leading you to be a blessing in a world of hurt.

  As your pastor, I continue to hold you in prayer while we continue to stay at home and worship online.  Please know you are loved!  For more information about the Virginia Conference COVID-19 response, please visit:  https://vaumc.org/Coronavirus2020.

  May the promise of Easter remain with us during  the pandemic and through the rest of the year.

  Blessings

  Pastor Robin